From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 30 20:41:05 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 483DB16A46B for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:41:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash+freebsd@gmail.com) Received: from smtp.sd73.bc.ca (smtp.sd73.bc.ca [142.24.13.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D7BF13C48E for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:41:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash+freebsd@gmail.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1593C1A000B11 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:09:14 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at smtp.sd73.bc.ca Received: from smtp.sd73.bc.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.sd73.bc.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id uN3YMrIJU1w0 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:09:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from coal (s10.sbo [192.168.0.10]) by smtp.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66FD11A000B0E for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:09:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Freddie Cash Organization: School District 73 To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:09:11 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <46D7186D.8030508@gahr.ch> <46D71A16.6020005@gahr.ch> <20070830154129.46951d54@bhuda.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20070830154129.46951d54@bhuda.mired.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200708301309.11353.fjwcash+freebsd@gmail.com> Cc: Subject: Re: what happened to make world? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:41:05 -0000 On August 30, 2007 12:41 pm Mike Meyer wrote: > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:27:18 +0200 Pietro Cerutti wrote: > > Max Laier wrote: > > > On Thursday 30 August 2007, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > > >> # make world > > >> WARNING: make world will overwrite your existing FreeBSD > > >> installation without also building and installing a new > > >> kernel. This can be dangerous. Please read the handbook, > > >> 'Rebuilding world', for how to upgrade your system. > > >> Define DESTDIR to where you want to install FreeBSD, > > >> including /, to override this warning and proceed as usual. > > >> You may get the historical 'make world' behavior by defining > > >> HISTORICAL_MAKE_WORLD. You should understand the implications > > >> before doing this. > > >> > > >> Bailing out now... > > >> *** Error code 1 > > >> > > >> Stop in /usr/src. > > >> > > >> > > >> Now, THIS is quite funny... do you really thing that a person with > > >> - root access > > >> - the knowledge of the existence of "make world" > > >> needs this sort of things? > > >> > > >> I didn't see anything about this new-wave-of-user-friendly-bsd > > >> going on the list.. have I missed something? > > > > > > And your complaint would be ... what exactly? > > > > I don't want my OS to treat me like a stupid. > > Yeah, we have Windows for that. Or if you hate MS, GNU/Linux. > > But there are valid reasons for wanting to do a make world (i.e. - > you've changed make.conf options the kernel doesn't use). If it's > going to be friendly, it should tell us how to do what we told it to > do.... =46rom the original post: =2D--------- Define DESTDIR to where you want to install FreeBSD, including /, to override this warning and proceed as usual. You may get the historical 'make world' behavior by defining HISTORICAL_MAKE_WORLD. =A0You should understand the implications before doing this. =2D--------- What part in there doesn't make sense? :) It tells you right there "how=20 to do what we told it to do". Seems like a lot of whining over nothing. =2D-=20 =46reddie Cash, LPIC-2 CCNT CCLP Network Support Technician School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] fjwcash+freebsd@gmail.com